According to the global network, the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted 311-114 to expel New York State Rep. George SantosThis means that he will become the sixth member of the U.S. history to be expelled from the House of Representatives.
As a Republican "scandalous congressman", Santos has been described as "notorious" by the New York Times and other American **, and there are plenty of reports revealing his fabricated life story.
According to the US media, in addition to falsifying his academic qualifications and work experience, Santos even committed fraud in Brazil. Because of this, in addition to being investigated by the United States, Santos inevitably faces a criminal arrest in Brazil.
After the U.S. midterm elections last year, Santos's New York district was supposed to be the Democratic Party's vote, but he won the state's House of Representatives, and he was even complacent about it. As everyone knows, it was Santos's unexpected victory that brought him naturally into the sight of the two parties.
Previously, the Democratic mouthpiece "New York Times" broke the news that Santos's identity and life experience were all fabricated, and he himself was actually a criminal who fled to the United States from Brazil. The Democrats immediately attacked and demanded that the Republicans remove Santos from his congressional position.
But the problem is that the Republican Party's advantage in the House of Representatives is not very obvious, and it is precisely for this reason that McCarthy, who was the Speaker of the House of Representatives at that time, still had the intention of keeping Santos, but his "procrastination" did not play any role.
Under pressure from the Democratic Party, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in May that it had filed 13 federal charges against Santos, including wire fraud, money laundering, and more. At the same time, a report by the House Ethics Committee shows that Santos used campaign funds for personal expenses, which means that even if he pleads not guilty, the evidence is enough to prove his false identity.
However, before being ousted, Santos actually faced a very crucial decision:Whether to stay and continue the "struggle" or to preemptively curry favor with prosecutors by resigning, after all, once he leaves Congress, he will have to give up his lucrative annual salary, and his financial situation will not be alleviated by a congressional pension.
From this point of view, Santos clearly chose the former, insisting on not admitting the account, intending to stay in Congress with a dead face. Of course, he relied on nothing more than the high threshold for expulsion in the House of Representatives, and the proposal must be voted in favor of by two-thirds of the members of the House of Representatives.
Originally, this high "threshold" was still quite useful to Santos, but as the revelations in the United States became more and more detailed, the number of congressmen who supported his removal has been increasing instead of decreasing, and under the pressure of the Democratic Party and **, the Republican Party can not keep Santos now.
At present, the removal of Santos has become one of the few "consensuses" between the two parties, and after the forced eviction motion was passed, Santos finally could not escape the result of being recalled. But it should be noted thatAfter Santos was kicked out of the House of Representatives, the vacated seat he vacated also needed someone to "inherit".
Under U.S. law, New York City Mayor Casey Holmon, a Democrat, must hold a special election within 10 days of Santos' expulsion, at which time county delegates from both parties will hold an internal ballot to choose a successor.
In short, it is not at all surprising that Santos, the "* Congressman", was finally expelled by the two parties in the United States, after all, a clumsy trick like his would have been expelled from Congress long ago if it were not for the serious partisan strife in the United States.